"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

David Antin, American Poet

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"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."

Billy Sherwood, American Musician

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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."

Howard Nemerov, American Poet

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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."

Laurence Housman, English Playwright

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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

Mark Strand, American Poet

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"That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way."

Language, Literature

"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."

Language, Eloquence, English, Fact, Vocabulary

"Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages."

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"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear."

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"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"

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"The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer."

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"Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."

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"I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below."

Work, Houses, Sea, Storms

"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."

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"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect."

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